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God's*Everlasting*Law*Covenant*
PERFECTION
AND OBEDIENCE REWARDED WITH EVERLASTING LIFE.
[3
horizontal lines on the chart are labeled and described as follows:]
A. Plane of spirit perfection and covenant
relationship.
B. Plane of human perfection and covenant relationship
to God,
actual and reckoned; but ineffectual
even for sacrificial purposes
until Christ appeared as their
Advocate.--Heb. 11:38-40.
C. Adam and his race fallen from covenant relationship
in sin and death."
[The
vertical areas of the chart are labeled and described as follows:]
*EDEN*
Adam, created
perfect, was in covenant relationship to God, under
Divine Law--obey and live
everlastingly; disobey and die.
Sin broke this covenant relationship
and brought Adam and
his race under death-sentence. Their
only hope lies in a restoration
of perfection and then a renewal of the
covenant conditions by Messiah.
*PATRIARCHAL*AGE*
*FROM*
ADAM TO MOSES
*JEWISH*AGE*
*OF*
TYPICAL COVENANT
FROM MOSES TO CHRIST
[The
following sentences span both vertical areas entitled PATRIARCHAL and JEWISH
AGES:]
The Abrahamic
Oath-bound Covenant Barren
Until The Christ Came.
Ancient Worthies
justified by faith to reckoned covenant relationship with
God.
[The
following sentences span only the area under JEWISH AGE:]
TYPICAL ISRAEL
BROUGHT
INTO COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD BY MOSES, but
unable to maintain it.
Renewals "year by year"
brought life everlasting to
none. "Salvation is of the
Jews."
Amos 3:2; Jno. 4:22.
*THE*GOSPEL*AGE*
*UNTIL*
FULNESS OF GENTILES COME IN
COMPLETING BODY OF CHRIST
JESUS CHRIST BY
HIS PERFECT
sacrifice and the Church, his
"members," by their
faith-justified
sacrifice exalted to covenant
relationship
on the spirit plane--Heirs of
the Oath-bound Covenant--"THE
SEED."
Gal. 3:29.
To retain covenant relationship
these are required to be obedient to
the spirit of God's Law in Christ.
"Ye are not under the Law, but
under
Grace".--Rom.
6:14.
The "Great Company"
spirit-begotten,
attain this plane through the
"destruction of the flesh."
THE PRIZE WON BY
THE
CHRIST AND SACRIFICED.--
Rom. 11:7. THE JEWISH NATION
BLINDED AND REJECTED UNTIL
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL'S SELECTION.
Rom. 11:25-32.
Believers
tentatively justified by
faith, giving them opportunity
for sacrificing earthly interests:
failing of this their justification
lapses and they pass with the
world to the actual justification
of the Millennium.
I Jno. 5:19.
"The whole
world lieth in the wicked one."
*MILLENNIAL*AGE*
*OF*
*MEDIATORIAL*REIGN*
THE CHRIST IN
GLORY,
MEDIATOR, PROPHET,
PRIEST, KING, JUDGE OF
ISRAEL, reconciling and perfecting
fallen men, as
Abraham's Earthly Seed--
getting them ready to turn
over to God under his Law
Covenant renewed.
"I have constituted thee
(Abraham) a father of many
nations."
The "blood" of Christ applied
secures opportunity for the
return of all men to Covenant
relationship with God. Rom.
4:17
ANCIENT WORTHIES,
ABRAHAM'S EARTHLY SEED,
IN COVENANT RELATIONSHIP--
"PRINCES IN ALL THE EARTH."
THE EARTHLY PHASE OF THE
MEDIATORIAL KINGDOM.
ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH
UNDER MEDIATOR'S KINGDOM IN
PROCESS OF RESTITUTION.
THE DISOBEDIENT
DESTROYED IN
SECOND DEATH AS GOD'S ENEMIES.
"AGES
TO COME"
EVERLASTING
BLISS.
CHRIST
ON THE THRONE
--OF--
UNIVERSE
*WITH*
THE FATHER
Mankind anew
in covenant
relationship
with God.
The Mediatorial
Kingdom at an end.
I Cor.
15:24-28. And
the restored ones
tried by justice and
the unworthy "Goats"
destroyed. Rev.
20:9,10;
Matt. 25:41-46.
Satan and all
evildoers destroyed,
there will
be a clear universe--
"Every creature...
praising God." Rev.
5:13.
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is the end of the chart.]
There
is but one Divine Law, whatever be the form of its statement--Supreme love for
God and the same love for a neighbor as for self. To this Law angels and men
must conform to be in Covenant Relationship with God, enjoying
eternal life. The Law Covenant attempted this for Israel during
the Jewish Age, by its mediatorial work of one Atonement Day renewed "year
by year."
The
Antitypical Moses (the Christ Head and Body, the "Royal Priesthood"),
by his "better sacrifices," will succeed in bringing antitypical Israel into
Covenant Relationship and life everlasting. The Gospel Age is "the
acceptable time" for consecrating the priests through sacrificing (Psalm 50:5), and paying to Justice the
ransom-price laid down at Calvary. The
Millennial Age will be the time for reconciling the world, symbolized by
Moses sprinkling "the people" with the blood of the sacrifices of
atonement. The at-one-ment will not be complete between God and men until the
end of the Millennium, when Christ shall deliver over the Kingdom to the
Father.
The
world through Israel's
renewed Covenant and better Mediator will begin to receive New Covenant blessings at once under the Mediatorial
Kingdom, but not until
the Millennium is ended will perfected, restored men, be admitted to covenant relationship with God.
The
Church, accepted through Christ by faith and consecration, as members of the
antitypical Seed of Abraham, are now at one with God through their
Bridegroom-Advocate, in Covenant relationship and blessing.--Gal. 3:29.
W.T. R-4538
a : page 380 – 1909 r.